Mai Mai Mai
Rimorso
Repossessed by the past, bitten once again and forced to relive drama, history, memories, tradition and roots. A past that needs exorcizing, bending and re-imagining in order to move forward and depend on. This is ‘Rimorso’, Mai Mai Mai’s colossal mediterranean gothic album. Known for his incredible blend of Southern Italian Folklore, industrial drone, proto-techno & punishing miasmic electronic music, Toni Cutrone aka Mai Mai Mai approached ‘Rimorso’ with a clean slate. Following ‘Nel Sud’ (La …
Omega Mai
**250 copies. Pressed on clear vinyl with black haze ** Recorded on August 11, 2020 at Outside Inside Studio, Volpago del Montello. Omega Mai is Squadra Omega (Omega Matt, Omega G8) and Mai Mai Mai. Mixed and mastered by Matt Bordin. Includes two A4 drawings by Flavio Bordin.
Isola/Azione
** Edition of 100 copies, red vinyl with hand silkscreened cover ** Mai Mai Mai special release, recorded at Home during the period of Lockdown due to the Pandemic. I am taking time to meditate and to imagine possible futures that we are all called to build as a collective, the time given by this Quarantine to rethink the world has we know it. These two long tracks represent a sound picture of this moment. It's Meditation. "Isola" means "Island": we ended up being on our private and personal I…
Phi
Φ (Phi) is the third and final installment in Mai Mai Mai's Mediterranean trilogy, pushing the project deeper into a vivid interzone of digital synthesis and scorched ritual. The album opens with a searing collaboration with avant-folk instrumentalist Luca Venitucci, locked into a lofty duel of distorted drones, before pivoting to a throbbing oblivion of jackhammer bass, seething feedback, and combat samples. Later passages ooze through industrial spoken word, technoid voodoo hallucination, seas…
Petra
Mai Mai Mai keeps carrie on with his travel, bringing us back soundscapes of "Lands" he crossed. "Petra" delves deeper into this journey, as the appendix to the Trilogy about the Mediterranean, that sees "Theta" (LP, Boring Machines, 2013) and "Delta" (LP, Yerevan Tapes, 2014) as the former episodes of this long exploration.In this album everything, from the alchemical artwork by the artist Andreco, silkscreened on the B side, to the inner booklet (a 12 pages photo book), is made up to instill t…
Delta
Mai Mai Mai is a solo project by Toni C., member of the noise-rock outfit Hiroshima Rocks Around and the spasticpop duo Trouble vs. Glue. He also runs the NO=FI Recordings label and co-runs the Dal Verme Club in Rome. Mai Mai Mai is the materialization of a travel in time and space, a mix of drone and ambient, steamy and phat techno beats, field recordings and soundscapes on the border between East and West. After the debut Theta LP (Boring Machines, 2013), Delta is his second release and second…
Theta
Theta is the first album from Mai Mai Mai, the tracks have been recorded in Rome and them mixed in L.A. by Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu). Nasty beats and sharp sounds emerges from a cloudy background of noises and field recordings, over which Mai Mai Mai applies some recorded ancient greek chants or slowly recites his sermons.